Masterpiece or bomb? The baffling experience of “Last Year At Marienbad.”

Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:

There is a very strange movie that I don’t like very much, but which I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I do love great movies, but occasionally I write articles about movies I dislike (such as this one and this one), not to denigrate them, but to try to understand what makes them tick. I often find bad movies much more interesting to analyze and think about than good ones, although the experience of watching them is quite different than some of...